Executive Search Information

The executive search service is paid for by the client organization and NOT by the hired job candidate, so you should not be asked for any fees. Potential job candidates are identified, assessed and pre-qualified before being presented to the client based on the best fit with a person specification developed in conjunction with the client. Assessing the degree of suitability of the candidate against the person specification is the main reason for a search firm to be engaged i.e. to save the time and expense of identifying, qualifying and reviewing potential candidates for specific executive job roles.

When organizations want to find new management and executive talent from elsewhere, they have several options. They can decide to manage the whole process themselves or use recruitment agencies; or they can engage an executive search firm usually on a retained basis which is a most appropriate method for hiring senior-level executives.

Executive Search Online is a leading nationwide service for those who wish to be considered at large & small employers, growth firms and Fortune 1000 companies. Specialties include:

• Accounting / Administration
• Advertising / Public Relations
• Aerospace / Defense
• Arts & Entertainment
• Banking / Biomed / Biotech
• Consumer Products
• Education / Healthcare
• Engineering / Electronics
• Finance / Financial Services
• General Mgmt. / Top Mgmt.
• HR / Recruiting / Outplacement
• Insurance / All Legal
• IT / IS / Internet / Comp. Sci.
• Law Enforcement & Security
• Management Consulting
• Manufacturing - all operations
• Nonprofit / Operations
• Retail / Real Estate
• Restaurant / Food Service
• Sales / Marketing
• Sales @ Home
• Service Industries
• Sports / Fitness / Training
• Transportation / Logistics

Job seekers who qualify for senior-executive level searches should NOT mistake executive recruiters for career transition, or "outplacement" specialists. Executive search recruiters work for their client companies and do not actively place out-of-work individuals. As a job seeker you do not pay a recruiter when you land a job. The client company pays the recruiting firm when it fills a position. It is worthwhile contacting executive search firms if you qualify but because their relationship is with the hiring organization, do not expect them to make time to talk with you or see you. They are driven by their specific assignments for their clients: they find people for jobs, not jobs for people.

They may try to help candidates, but their priority is identifying the best candidate for a particular job and making the best match against the brief they have been given.

Qualified professionals with records of accomplishment are invited to register now for these executive openings:

• Senior executives and former entrepreneurs at Director, VP level or C-level with direct P&L or staff responsibility, or who have managed multi-plant or multi-service operations and who are looking for growth opportunities and commensurate financial rewards at $150,000 to $500,000+.
• Mid-level staff with experience in legal, banking, franchising, communications, consumer goods, electronics operations, and retail... including service and manufacturing at $60,000 to $150,000+.
• Sales and marketing professionals with a proven record who have helped increase market share and exceeded forecasts in the tangible products or service market segments at $75,000 to $225,000.
• Financial and accounting managers, analysts and directors, including CPAs of local firms, controllers, and CFOs of diversified operations seeking to increase responsibility and at $60,000 to $160,000.
• Educators, MBAs, MAs, and PhDs in all fields seeking growth and earnings in the private sector and who can demonstrate they have unique skills... and are seeking $75,000 to $185,000.
• Mid-level and senior-level manufacturing, project management and high tech professionals, admin staff, early retirees, IT/IS, purchasing, distribution and officers leaving the military.

Although contractual obligations exist only between the search firm and client, search consultants also build professional and ethical relationships with candidates, whom they may remain in contact with over a period of time as a future potential candidate.

But, as an executive talking to an executive search firm do not think you have a certain job offer just because you develop a close relationship with the search consultant. Remember that the consultant's job is to present several qualified candidates to the client, and it is the client who makes the ultimate decision.

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